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    "content": "campaigned for them or for the people who manage their political parties for a position as sensitive as the JSC. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, fair competition and merit should also be ingrained in the appointment decisions at the county governments because we have seen too many cases where Governors and the County Executive Committees (CECs) use these appointments to reward cronies and also to silence opponents. Furthermore, this Bill talks about public participation in the promotion of values and principles, as stated in Article 232. When I read this particular clause of the Bill, I find it to be very convoluted because it just opens doors for people to mint money by saying they will be going round in public forums to encourage public participation on values and principles. Perhaps, what is much more relevant is public participation in policy making. This has also been made a mockery; we have seen cases where county governments – which we are supposed to defend and represent – come up with interesting programmes to seek public participation. They will go to a market centre with a huge document called the Integrated Development Plan, call the fishermen and market traders there and ask them for their views. They never get any quality feedback from these people because, number one, they do not prepare these people in advance. Secondly, they do not avail these documents well in advance and they are so complicated that when you take it out there, it is only consultants who have the capacity to comment on them. What then happens is that all these people who are called here are sometimes promised some goodies; they call them money for the motorbike back home. What brings them into these forums, therefore, is more of the money they are going to get at the end of the session rather than the participation that they are expected to make. So, when you talk of participation in policy making, I hope that it will go beyond the mockery that we have seen going on. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one area that I like about this particular Bill is that it talks about handling complaints. At the moment, raising complaints is tantamount to shooting yourself in the foot. This is because if you go to a police station and you are treated badly, when you raise a complaint, the fear amongst the public is that the bad treatment will only increase. If you are in a hospital and you are treated badly, many people prefer to shut up because they have no visibility on the cause of action that can be taken to resolve the issues that they are complaining against. However, this being a digital Government and we, being in a digital age, I would encourage that the handling of complaints against violation of these values and principles should be automated. My colleague, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, has also talked about"
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